Device for coloring shingles or other flat articles



(No Model.)

J. D. HORTON & F. S. LEE. DEVICE FOR COLORING SHINGLBS OR OTHER FLATARTICLES.

No. 454,356. Patented June 16, 1891.

A TTORNEYS UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH D. HORTO). AND FRANK LEE, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

DEVICE FOR COLORING SHINGLES OR OTHER FLAT ARTICLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 454,356, dated June 16,1891.

Application filed January 21, 1891. Serial No. 378,537. (No model.)

T on whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, JOSEPH D. HORTON and FRANK S. LEE, of the city ofChicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented anew and Improved Device for Coloring Shingles and other Flat Articles,of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

Our invention relates to a device for coloring shingles and other flatarticles, and has for its object to provide a means whereby any fiatarticle-such as a shingle, for instancemay be conveniently andexpeditiously treated without waste of coloring material, as all surplusof such material is removed from the article during the process ofstaining.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of theseveral parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed outin the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forminga part ofthis specification, in which similar figures and letters of referenceindicate corresponding parts in all the v1ews.

Figure 1 is a plan view of the device. Fig. 2 is a side elevation,partly in section. Fig. 8 is a transverse section through the device;and Fig. 4 is a side elevation of one of the brushes detached.

In carrying out the invention any receptacle capable of holding thecoloring compound in bulk is employed-as for instance, a tub A-and thecover 13 of such receptacle is the subject of the present application.The cover is fitted to the receptacle and is made in two sections 10 and11, preferably of equal size, provided upon the periphery or margin attheir inner faces with horizontal lugs or ears 12. The two sections ofthe cover are connected and held some distance apart by hinges D. Eachof the hinges comprises two members l3 and ll, having their engagingends pivotally connected. The members 13 of the hinges, as shown in Fig.3, pass through one or more guidestaples 15 upon the upper face of thecar 12 of the cover-section 10 and through plates 16, secured to theouter edges of the ears. The outer ends of the members 13 are threaded,and upon the threaded portions of the members nuts 17, preferablywing-nuts, are secured. The members l-l of the hinges also passthroughguide-staples 19 upon the upper faces of the ears of thecoversection ll; but the outer ends of the hinge members ll are rigidlysecured to the cars by means of screws, bolts, or equivalent fasteningdevices. Thus by manipulating the nuts 17 the cover-sections may becarried toward or from each other, as occasion may demand, and as theadjusting mechanism also serves as hinges, either cover-section may belifted, rendering the interior of the covered receptacle readilyaccessible. A brush 20 is secured to each cover-section at or near andessentially parallel with its inner edge, and

the bristles or flexible sections of the two brushes engage, asillustrated in Fig. 1.

The arrangement of the bristles of the brushes is peculiar, as shown inFig. at, one row a of the bristles being placed at a right angle to theback of the brush, while the next row (1 extends at a lesser angle fromthe back in the direction of the right, crossing the row a diagonally,and the bristles of the third row a incline in the direction of theleft, also at a lesser angle than a right angle tothe back and cross thesecond row diagonally. Any desired number of rows may be employed in theconstruction of the brush. By this construction it is obvious that alattice-work of bristles is obtained, and the working-face of the brushis rendered very full, much more so than when the bristles are placed inthe ordinary manner.

In operation, the coversections having been properly adjusted, theshingles or other ob jects 'to be stained or painted are forced downbetween the working-surfaces of the brushes into the coloring materialbelow, and when the articles have been properly colored they arewithdrawn upward also between the brushes, which remove all susplusmaterial. When the shingles are forced down between the brushes, anycoloring material contained therein is almost entirely forced out,rendering the brushes comparatively clean, and enabling them when theshingles are colored sufficiently to effectually remove all of thesurplus coloring material from both faces.

Having thus described our invention, we

claim as new anddesire to secure by Letters Patent 1. A device forcoloring flat articles and adapted to be located over a receptacle,consisting of two cover-sections connected by adjustable hinges, andbrushes secured to the cover-sections, the working-surfaces of whichbrushes extend beyond the edges of the cover-sections practically to anengagement, substantially as shown and described.

2. A device for coloring fiat articles and adapted to be located over areceptacle, consisting of a sectional cover, adjustable hingesconnecting the sections of the cover, and brushes secured opposite eachother, one to each cover-section, the bristles or working edges of whichbrushes extend over the inner edges of the sections and engage, as andfor the purpose specified.

3. The combination, with a receptacle, of a cover constructed in twosections, laterallyadjustable hinges connecting the two sections, andbrushes secured to the sections of the cover opposite one another, thebristles or working-surfaces whereof extend over the inner edges of thesections and engage, as and for the purpose specified.

4:. A device for coloring flatarticles and adapted to bellocat-ed over areceptacle, consisting in a sectional cover or support, the inneradjacent edges of which are provided with brushes, the bristle faces ofwhich face each other, each brush comprising a back, a row of bristlesextending from said back at a right angle, a second row of bristlesextending in direction of the right at a lesser angle than a right angleand crossing the first row diagonally, and a third row of bristlesextending toward the left at approximately the same angle as the secondrow, the third row of bristles crossing the second row diagonally,whereby a lattice-work of bristles is obtained, substantially as and forthe purpose specified.

JOSEPI-l D. HORTON. FRANK S. LEE.

W'itnesses:

GEORGE PFEFFER, J. F. CAMPBELL.

